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 Hi my fellow bloggers and friends!  

I just wanted to tell you all that I have a new webpage! You can now visit me at www.justonecupcake.com.  

Thanks for reading my posts I hope you enjoyed them. If you did, go visit my new site and let’s keep following this journey to get healthier while losing weight!  

Because weight loss is not easy… but it can be fun!

Taco Bell’s Fourth Meal

Fourth Meal...No thanks!

Really, what is this about? I can’t barely handle the three meals and a healthy snack and lose weight, could you imagine if I decided to go for Taco Bell’s Fourth Meal?

 

In my weight loss journey, I’ve learned that I need to stay away, as much as possible, from fast foods. I still eat from there but I try to do it to a minimum. Eventually my goal is to avoid them completely. I’ve noticed that when I don’t even eat once at a fast food I do much better with my regimen.   

When I think about fast food, I think about burgers, fries, onion rings, chicken wings, tacos, etc. And for me the time to eat it is during one of my three meals. Thinking about eating from Taco Bell after hours make my hips grow wider. I even feel heavier.    

Lately I’ve seen that people are more conscious on what the eat and on exercises. My question is, why do this fast food companies keep insisting in bringing this kind of alternative? I guess that there is more people who go to the Fourth Meal than the ones that stick to their main three.    

I will skip this drive through late at night, because I know I’ll see and feel the effects later. In my case eating late at night, – 11pm and up,- opens a whole new door for me, like what happened to the Gremlins. I know I won’t stop with a simple taco or burger, I’ll eat the whole menu and then some.    

If you go out and on your way back home you get hungry, think about your options and make a smart decision. Remember, the effects come later.

Is That’s Your Goal?!

The Wizard of "Goal"

How many times have you heard that? If I had a nickel for every time I heard that in my lifetime I’ll be, well out of debt. 

The definition of goal is, the end toward which effort is directed. This doesn’t mean that we can’t change while in the journey. 

The number I selected as my goal weight might change on my way there. All depends on how I feel and look at certain weight. That number is the magic number, you know like in the Wizard of Oz. In the movie the characters had to travel the long Yellow Brick Road to get to the Wizard. Once there they got what they were looking for but not in the expected way. 

The same happens with my goal weight. That is my “Wizard of Oz” (only with my name), and the journey I’m traveling is my long Yellow Brick Road. I know that in the end I’ll get what I want, lose weight. It might be the number I selected or it might be a little different. 

Next time someone asks you “is that your goal?”, say yes very proud and keep working at it. Only you have the power to make it a reality and don’t forget you can modify this number as many times as you like. After all is not written in stone!  Enjoy your weight loss journey and make it fun and memorable.

Vacation, What’s the Damage?

Vacations!!

I just came back from my vacations in Puerto Rico. As you might know, I went to celebrate my birthday and to spend time with my family and friends.

In the beginning I was super confident that I was going to be able to manage my Weight Watchers Points with no problem. After all, is all about watching the portions, right? WRONG! Well it is part of it but not all. 

It wasn’t until I arrived to the airport and ordered a chicken-mango wrap with fries that I panicked.  Although I only ate half of it and almost none of the fries, I was concern about the rest of the trip.

You see, I love food, especially Puerto Rican food, which most of it is FRIED!!! Yes fried! Don’t get me wrong, you can find very healthy food in Puerto Rico but most of my favorites are not healthy!

Half way eating my lunch, I remembered I was going to go to a very Puerto Rican birthday. With music, FOOD, drinks, games, CAKE, dancing… did I mentioned FOOD and CAKE?? To be honest my anxiety levels went from o to 100 in a second and my “hungry gland” was activated the whole time.

After arriving to the party and seeing all the food available, I thought, “OMG, it is only Saturday and I already ate my points for the day and the extra ones… what is going to happen on my birthday?”

At that moment I decided to stop worrying about that and enjoy myself. That I wasn’t going to make others feel uncomfortable with my eating habits. I mean, I wasnt going to throw everything out the window, but I wasn’t going to obsess about it either. 

True I stooped counting my points and watching my portions, and I decided to accept whatever result came out of that.

Today I’m happy to report that I didn’t gain any weight. I guess that after all, my body and my mind are more connected than I thought, and this trip didn’t affect my progress. If anything taught me that I should be calm and enjoy myself without obsessing about the food and others.

Awareness, not obsession, is key during your vacations. Enjoy!